# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ernst-fegte
# Generated: 2026-08-14T06:59:05.291Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ernst-fegte"
name: "Ernst Fegté"
slug: "ernst-fegte"
description: "Ernst Fegté was a German art director. He was active in the American cinema from the 1920s to the 1970s, he was the art director or production designer on more than 75 feature films. He worked at Paramount Studios at the height of his career and won an Academy Award for Best Art Direction for Frenchman's Creek (1944). He was also nominated in the same category for three other films: Five Graves to Cairo (1943), The Princess and the Pirate (1944), and Destination Moon (1950). He also worked in television in the 1950s and was nominated for an Emmy Award in 1956 for his work on the series, Medic."
tagline: "Art director (1900-1976)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
birthDate: "1900-09-28"
deathDate: "1976-12-15"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           35.97
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.335961333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  40
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0270404/"
    handle:    "nm0270404"
sources:
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_Fegt%C3%A9"
    title: "Ernst Fegté"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%86%D8%B3%D8%AA_%D9%81%D9%8A%D8%AC%D8%AA%D9%89"
    title: "ارنست فيجتى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_Fegt%C3%A9"
    title: "Ernst Fegté"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_Fegt%C3%A9"
    title: "Ernst Fegté"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_Fegt%C3%A9"
    title: "Ernst Fegté"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_Fegt%C3%A9"
    title: "Ernst Fegté"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q109055"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/127200"
    title: "Ernst Fegté"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump